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Registered charity (CIO) · Cornwall

The Gardeners' House - Penzance

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.6m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training, Environment/conservation/heritage, Economic/community Development/employment, Recreation
Where
Cornwall
Website
www.thegardenershouse.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2021

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.6m£189k
  • 2024£813k£61k
  • 2023£172k£82k
Earlier years
  • 2022£133k£100k

Income trend, 2022 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 20%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ‘GARDENERS HOUSE’ IN PENZANCE, SURROUNDING BOTANICAL GARDENS, AND THE BOTANICAL ARCHIVES AND NEW PLANT REGISTRY.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PRESERVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BOTANICAL GARDENS, THE BOTANICAL ARCHIVES AND THE NEW PLANT REGISTRY.

Grants received

5 grants · £2,541,294 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 7Environment/conservation/heritage 7Economic/community Development/employment 6Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 2Tech and media 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 4 years.
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£1.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

7
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1195599
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 23 Aug 2021
Contact on the register
07974996089 · info@thegardenershouse.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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